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Caught off guard, environmentalists at first welcomed the plan as a peace overture from the embattled Secretary. But their approval turned to dismay when they examined the fine print. Said John McComb, director of the Washington, D.C., office of the Sierra Club: "To say that we were deceived by Watt's proposal would be an understatement. This is one of the worst things that has happened to the environment since Watt himself...
Before the Harvard wrestling team could finish celebrating its best season in history, the joyous screams of victory turned into groans of dismay as the Crimson was stripped Wednesday of its first Ivy League title because of a technical weight violation in a meet last month. The ruling by Ivy League commissioner Jim Litvac changed Harvard's 24-16 triumph over Columbia on February 13 into a 22-20 loss, giving the Lions a 4-0 1 record in the League, and dropping Harvard into a three-way tie with Yale and Cornell for second place...
...Corporation first moved to retract this concession after being forced to divest $50 million in Citibank debt securities following the announcement of the bank's participation in a consortium loan to South Africa in September 1980. Much to the Corporation's dismay, Harvard's commendable action received unexpectedly widespread press coverage and proved highly embarrassing to Citibank and the South African regime. Soon after, Citibank dispatched a representative to consult with the Corporation and lobby University officials to relax their present policy. The Corporation responded by applying pressure on the ACSR to approve the repeal of the 1978 concession...
...White House hopes that dismay over the size of the deficit will keep pressure on Congress to cut domestic programs further. In order to hold the deficit to less than $100 billion in fiscal 1983, which begins Oct. 1, the Administration has requested $25 billion more in budget cuts. Reagan insisted last week that this well is far from dry. Said he: "The amount of money in the budget for '83 for all human and social affairs is a 4.5% increase over the 1982 budget." This is not the case. According to Reagan's budget, outlays for programs...
...Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Strom Thurmond (R-SC) sponsored the bill Democratic leaders in the Senate have expressed dismay that Kennedy normally a liberal, has backed the measure